Editorial

  • Time for a real alternative

    Time for a real alternative "Australians are sick to death of being conned by politicians", opposition leader Alexander Downer told the faithful at the September 5 launch of The Things That Matter. He's right. And the Liberals' broad

  • Bosnia: give peace a chance

    Editorial: Bosnia: give peace a chance For over two years, the war in Bosnia has dragged on, killing an estimated 200,000 people, the majority of them the victims of Bosnian Serb aggression. In this time the besieged Bosnian government has had

  • Liquidating public property

    Liquidating public property After a valuation of Australian National Lines found that the government-owned company could not be privatised, minister for transport Laurie Brereton is looking at ANL's liquidation. The study by merchant bank

  • Keating's privatisation push threatens jobs and environment

    Keating's privatisation push threatens jobs and environment When Prime Minister Paul Keating met with state premiers in the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on August 19 they claimed to be discussing a new national competition

  • A glimpse behind the figleaf

    A glimpse behind the figleaf A good deal of the decisions that most affect our lives are made in secretive and confidential meetings by senior corporate executives — those with the power to invest, speculate, close down factories and

  • No to US/UN invasion of Haiti

    No to US/UN invasion of Haiti The UN Security Council resolution authorising "all necessary means to facilitate the departure from Haiti of the military leadership" sets the political framework for a US-led invasion of Haiti under UN cover.

  • Rwanda: how Canberra can really help

    Rwanda: how Canberra can really help Canberra's belated decision to spend $10 million for aid to Rwanda, although welcome, is a pittance compared to the amount rich Australia could and should contribute. Putting the figure in proportion, $10

  • End support for thugs

    End support for thugs The Australian government has announced that the Indonesian Armed Forces have been invited to participate in the next big Australian army war games, Kangaroo 95. This announcement was made in Darwin, a city where many East

  • Elect all who govern

    Elect all who govern It appears that the "debate" over republic versus monarchy is going to remain with us for some time. The campaign by Keating's ALP for a more "dignified national identity" has become one of the government's most important

  • Eroding democracy

    Eroding democracy Senator Nick Bolkus, not content with denying basic human rights and dignity to refugees, nor with insulting Australia's Macedonian community, is now bent on devaluing the democratic rights of Australia's elected

  • Scoundrels

    Scoundrels It is not just the radical left that recognises the relationship between existing deep-seated social problems and unemployment. Writing in an April issue of the Sydney Morning Herald, journalist Geoff Kitney stated that the Liberal

  • Health insurance should be unnecessary

    Health insurance should be unnecessary Recent reports to the federal health minister have once again raised the perennial problem of Australian politics — health funding. For ideological and self-interested reasons, the debate is unlikely to